My Everything

My everything is you

You who shine

You who send your light afar and warm the dank and dark and dreaded

You who give and give and do not give up, but grow in your giving and have more

My everything is happiness

A nesting

A place of being

Inside, not outside myself

My everything

Is you

You who capture my attention again and again

You who continue to show all that is good

Thank you for being you

Nature of Longing

We loved away pain as rain poured around us
Heat of desire keeping us dry
How great was the need:
we for each other, our chosen
And now, as time goes on, the intensity wanes

Come back! Come back!
How we long for the racing hearts and delighted glances
How we long to be reignited
Fresh in love and full of purpose
like Spring: fresh green bursting forth
in rising desire and beauty